Missy's Moments

Family

Like my new sign?? A friend from church makes these and I love them! I replaced the Loon with the above.... I love it! Fits our living room much better. The Loon now lives in the family room and it matches it's surroundings.

I also had a sign made for our bedroom. It's not as big but the bigger words are FAITH HOPE LOVE and across it in a script is Rick and Missy May 20th, 2000. I forgot to take a picture of it and the camera is gone for the weekend. I'll update the home album when I get the camera back.

Update

On Monday I started taking antibiotics, I also took some Nyquil on Monday night~ boy does that stuff work (or maybe it's just I'm a wimp) I passed out around 9:00 and slept sound until almost 7.

Today I woke up and felt noticeably better. My face is still a little puffy from my sinuses but better, my cough is still there but better. I think I ache less and that in itself makes a huge difference.

So all and all getting better. I'm going to work this morning, thought about getting a sub again but we have our staff meeting today that I really shouldn't miss.

I also have a prayer request, which I don't normally put on here because prayer needs are always great but this gal is dear to my heart and is the mother of 4 young children. We've had some play dates and gotten to know each other better this last year. She is so much on my heart today so if you feel led please lift Jennifer up. She will find out the results of some biopsies that she had done yesterday. Pray for clear results and peace for not just Jennifer but for her family. Thank you.

I'm Sick

I'm sick, I'm coughing, sneezing, stuffy, I can't rest because I can't get comfortable when I get comfortable I start coughing, my chest hurts and yes I'm going to the doctor tomorrow. I want everyone to feel sorry for me! Please ;) I've watched all three movies in the Jeanette Oke series Love Comes Softly and cried at everyone and now my mommy just got here so I'm going back to my post on the couch.

Rick is forgiven for the iron, he's just stepped in and kept everyone out of sight today. Other than not being able to breath and the aching life is good! ha ha ha

Awww-chew! God Bless Me :)

Hi-Jacked

On Tuesdays I don't work, it's a pretty easy going day. This last Tuesday started out normal. Kayla and Jordan got their buses early, Rick overslept a little but made it out the door on time. In the quest for making sure neither got the raw end of the deal Eric and Sam had their usual fight over who had to brush their teeth first. All the usual stuff. I got my list of errands that Sam and I would venture off to do after getting Eric off to kindergarten and after a small lecture about how we were going to be late everyone was in the car and ready to go. :)

We pull out of the driveway and not even 2 blocks down the road we I almost squish a Hot Dog Dog.... (dachshund). GOOD GRIEF! So I make the decision to keep going a truck comes the opposite direction and again this dog almost becomes a pancake. I look at the clock and decide that I'm pretty sure I know where this dog lives, I'll just pull over and run it home quick......

Picture this: Dog in middle of street. I get out of my car and say "come here buddy, come here" holding my hand out for him to sniff. He walks slowly towards me and then right before getting to me changes his mind and darts under my van. He's got himself curled around the passenger side front tire and is shaking. I walk to the passenger side and bend over to look under the van. I decide that just leaving wasn't an option because this guy was scared and cold. So again I say "come here buddy, come here" Well 'Buddy' (we'll just say that's his name) got up and started heading the other direction. I stood up and just figured that if that thing wanted to be road kill fine by me. Eric needed to get to school and I was cold and about sick of this. I started heading back over to the drivers side when I noticed the dog jumping up into the drivers side of my van (I left the door open when I tried to rescue him in the first place)

Now we had trouble. Scared, cold dog in my van with my children. NO GOOD! I calmly opened the other door and tried to get him out but all that did was make him head back towards the boys. I got Eric and Sam out and grabbed my cell phone and called my mom. I should mention here that my mom LOVES dogs and has fostered dogs and is really really good with dogs. She's only a few blocks away so I called hoping she'd answer and when she did I said grab some dog treats and get down here, I have a situation! Up the street drives mom (and BTW she had her slippers on and her hair hadn't seen a brush yet, she loves me!) Mom attempts to get the dog out, after showing some teeth and spitting the treats back out at mom we decided to call animal control.

"Hello, yes I'm stuck on the side of the road with my 2 small children, there is a 10 pound dog that had taken over my heated vehicle. could you come get it out??... please"

Boy did I feel like a knob! It took them about 20 minutes to get there. I forgot to mention that when mom first got there I tried to run up to the house that I thought it belonged to and there was no one home. Turns out it's not their dog anyway which explains why it wasn't so nice. The animal police came and rescued us. The Dog Whisperer I AM NOT!

I almost forgot, when I checked my email today there was a note from my husband..... smarty pants, where does he find this stuff?

#102

Add on to 101 list:

102. I hate to iron. (yes Jana you may come over any time!)

My hubby bought me something tonight.... think it's a hint! ROFL

Women of Faith

1. Worship with 18000 other women.... POWERFUL!

2. Lisa Smith~ Sandi Patty sang a song and Lisa signed the song. Her hands moving to the lyrics were the most magnificent. I have no idea what song was sang, all I could see was God's perfect love. The picture here on the right is Lisa Smith and I believe Sandi Patti. The following was written about her on the WOF website:

Catch Lisa Smith! Lisa Smith is a young lady with Down’s Syndrome who has taken the gift of signing and added to it her unashamed love for the Lord, which in turn has allowed her to express herself in absolute freedom and adoration for her Lord….

Lisa lives in Aubrey, TX with her parents.  Lisa has been signing to music for just over five years.  She has signed at her home church, Denton Bible Church, as well as other Dallas area churches and special events.  She has signed with Christian song artists Larnelle Harris, Kathy Troccoli, Avalon, the Women of Faith Worship Team at WOF Conferences, and last but not least, with her all time hero, Sandi Patty.

3. Antia Renfroe has seriously got to be one of the funniest women I've ever heard. On her site she has a video clip, the first part doesn't do her justice but if you watch on there's a small part of her coffee act. Her gift is humor and the way she uses it as her ministry was a definite blessing to me!

4. Pasty Clairmont, if I could pick an Aunt, or adopt one Pasty would be the one. She is so full of life, love and fun. Loved listening to her.

5. Carol Kent spoke about her book When I Lay My Isaac Down, powerful message, not a dry eye including mine.

There really wasn't anyone that I didn't enjoy listening to. What a gifted spirit filled group. I would love to go again next year. I also got to spend some much missed time with a dear friend of mine. Although I'm still a little hurt she opted for the couch after hearing horror stories about my sound effects while I sleep! How bad can it be. I mean REALLY????  ;) LOL

The Gift Bag

This morning I was getting ready to go to my bible study. This week I was asked to give the "Love Gift". It is about a 10 minute testimony and at the end you have everyone stand, we start out in a large group before breaking off into our small groups so there is about 75 women or so. Anyway the love gift is something simple that represents you. In my case I loaded it with some coffee, sticky notes, note cards and a book. You then proceed to say "Stay standing if...." one of mine was, loved watching Little House growing up and still watch the reruns. Anyway you get the picture. The last woman standing gets the gift.

So back to getting ready. I was getting ready and I went into my laundry room to get a gift bag, I have a large collection as I refuse to throw them and they have a home in a big rubber-maid container. As I was heading there I realized the dryer was full of jeans that I forgot to fold the night before. I better get those folded so they are not to wrinkled. I finish that and think about starting a load of laundry, run to the downstairs bathroom to grab a hamper, finish sorting what I have and am pretty sure the kids don't have too many dirty clothes upstairs. Better go check to make sure there's nothing more to go into the current load. Run upstairs, gather dirty clothes, am shocked at the explosion of dirty clothes in Kayla's closet, think about hangers, go back through closets to get hangers, stop to smart off to Rick while he's getting ready for work run back downstairs dropping parts of my load on the way down, get back to the laundry room and finish sorting. Whewwww.... that's done, turn around to walk out and turn off the light and think. "oh I almost forgot the gift bag' ~ DUH! What was I thinking?

And I wonder why I can't seem to get anything done! LOL

Exodus 14:14

"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."

Is there anything more reassuring?

So Tired

I can't even begin to tell you how tired I am this week. Good golly we have gone full speed from sun up (actually before) to sun down (much after). Things should settle down a bit and I think I wrote about this before but thinking about life being busy and actually being in the mist of it is two different things.

Everyone has a full week back at school now.

Sam is really enjoying preschool. He REALLY loves his music class which is one morning a week. I'm so glad because that was the class I wasn't sure about. I signed him up because it's on the morning of our women's bible study. I didn't think it was fair to put him in child care when there was another option available. I do think the childcare has planned activitives but it's by no means as structured as the preschool class. He was telling me after the first class last week "mom we held this thing and got a stick and got to bang it and it was loud" What more could a boy want? A loud thing and a stick. Sounds perfect to me and it'll stay perfect as long as I don't have to listen to it!! He practiced writing his "A" and the number "1". The theme this week was God Made Me and they made books with different little facts about themselves. One line said My Favorite Book: "a gupe book". I asked Sam what his "gupe" book is and he looked at me and said "SCOOP NOT GUPE" on that same note we had "THoup" for dinner one night and his new friend in music is "Damual" (Samuel) Guess we better get working on those S sounds.  :)

Eric is doing good. I stopped crying after the third day. He still looks to darn little to be getting on that bus! He loves it and was even upset with me the day I had to pick up. The buses have pictures with the numbers and he would have much rather gotten on the Frog Bus than had mommy pick him up. He still says Nufin when I ask him about his day. It's frustrating because we only get weekly letters telling what they are up to. Every once in a while he'll slip up and tell me something but not very often. He has homework over the weekend. He has to practice his name upper case E and lower case 'ric'. That is the kindergarten way. They also introduced the first two sight words. 'I' and 'am'. Now his teacher should have asked him how to spell replay or start or high score, I'm almost sure he would have gotten those! LOL

Jordan is doing well. He seems to like his teacher. His bus comes at 6:55 and I believe today I finally got him up at 6:47, yes he can get dressed, brush his teeth and make his bed in 7 minutes. It's amazing but he does it. Thank goodness the bus stops in front of our house! His weekly bible study started last Sunday. It's called CORE and his NEXUS group started on Thursday night. Wednesday he started at AWANA. He is a leader in training for the kindergarten/1st graders. I was sure proud of him, I think the smile on his faced reflected how blessed he felt. Maybe without even realizing it.

Kayla has finished 2 weeks of drivers ed. I really can't wait until she can drive (sort of), she is at the homecoming football game tonight and has her first cold of the school year. On her way out the door tonight I needed to remind her that she is sick and lucky to be going as she tried to get out of here in a tank top! Really what could I have been thinking to place health and wellbeing before fashion?? Sheshhh mom.

I have begged Sam and Eric every afternoon for a little rest time. I'm so tired when I get home, I can't even imagine adding more to my plate. I'm starting a Precepts study next week, along with MOPS starting up. I didn't imagine that working outside the home would feel so different than working from my home. I really thought that there might be things that are easier and there are. I do love my new job, I just haven't found my new normal yet.

I'm on here tonight simply because I'm waiting for my teenagers to be home safe and sound and then it's off to dreamland, oh I can't wait!

goodnight, it I've rambled well it must not have been to bad if you read until here :)

First Days

Yesterday at 6:57am Jordan got on the bus. Kayla didn't have to be to school until noon and today it was Sam's turn. And mine :) Tomorrow it's Eric. Here is Jordan yesterday:

Every year I take a picture on the first day of school. This is Kayla, I was getting ready to take the picture and her phone rang, her ride was also pulling up. This is pretty much how I see her most of the time anyway so the picture is very fitting!

Yesterday Eric had a "practice". He went to school for 1 1/2 hours to spend some more time with the teacher and talk about the day and the bus routines etc. He was very quiet when I dropped him off. Didn't want to say much and for the first time ever wasn't in a big hurry to give me a hug and kiss. In fact I didn't push it because I knew he was nervous. I bent down and whispered in his ear "I love you and I know your gonna do great and Jesus loves you and he'll stay right here with you" He just gave me a quiet OK and off I went. (I'm not telling if I cried or not) When Sam and I picked him up he was all smiles and said he had fun. He told me all about snack and the game they played and he said he likes Miss Julie. Makes life a little easier tomorrow morning when he gets on the bus but I'm still following him in the car and watching him get off. Sam has music class so I'll be all by myself and I plan on heading right to a coffee place and drinking a big cup of java and balling my eyes out!

Sam had his first day of preschool today. It was my first day too so we went together. (Eric hung out with grandma B) I think Sam kind of liked having mommy around. He was great about letting me talk with other kids and helping me play a game in the gym. We have a early drop off option and that was where I was working before our class began. That is also where Sam is before He goes to his class. I saw him in the hall when we were passing to recess and he just gave me a little wave. Sam was in a great mood when our day was done and had lots of things to tell me about. I'm grateful Eric's kindergarten starts tomorrow. They both have their own special day.

Like I said today was my first day. I just can't get over how sweet those little faces are. There is one little girl in our class that is so quiet and shy. I thought today I will be praying for her to come out of her shell a little this year. There are a few that aren't so quiet and shy and I will be praying for wisdom to help them direct their energy in ways that don't suck all our energy! LOL. This morning really wiped me out but it was good. God is good ;)